Golf is first and foremost a game of integrity. If one makes a mistake, one is to address it honestly with playing partners and note it in scoring. Such indiscretions happen every day on golf courses around the world, and nothing is said about it.

Scottie Scheffler won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship after Davis Riley self reported a violation on the final hole — USGA

Rarely has such a move of integrity been as decisive as it was in Nevada, where it cost one golfer one of the most prestigious titles outside the PGA Tour.

Instead, he told everyone what happened and then missed what became a very difficult putt as a result, costing him a title that he is unlikely to get so close to again. It's worth noting that Riley would have had to make two great shots before his self violation to stay alive, but self reporting the tap all but ended any chance he had of winning himself.

"It took a lot of heart to do that," Scheffler told the Gazette-Journal of Riley’s self-reported penalty. "I played pretty well down the stretch. In the morning round, I gave away a lot of shots and I struggled with the putting a little bit early, then I started to figure it out."